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A Results-Based Financing Duo: The World Bank and Global Fund
December 13, 2013
Yesterday the World Bank and the Global Fund announced a stronger partnership for health centered around an innovative aid mechanism, results-based financing (RBF). This partnership is precisely what our CGD report More Health for the Money recommended (see the chapter ...
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Why Are Development Agencies Giving up on Development?
November 05, 2013
The World Bank has decided to make this problem – the divergence of the organization’s rhetoric on “extreme poverty” and their clients’ desire for support in their national development agendas – even worse. They have announced that their goal is to “eradicat...
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We Read the New World Bank Group Strategy, So You Don't Have To
October 03, 2013
This is a joint post with Mead Over.  The new World Bank Group Strategy posted this week for discussion by the Development Committee, the ministerial-level forum that oversees the World Bank and the IMF, provides a solid analytical foundation for what has so far been a messy and...
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Close but No Cigar: Paying for Performance Is Not Necessarily COD Aid
September 11, 2013
When we make presentations on COD AIDat development agencies, we are frequently told: “Oh, we’re already doing that.” The more we investigate, however, the fewer cases we find where agencies are really disbursing funds against independently verified outcomes in a hands-off fas...
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Organize the World Bank Like a University, Not a Consulting Firm
September 04, 2013
This is a joint post with Alan Gelb. In response to our August 5 blog criticizing the World Bank’s current reorganization plans, a few readers wrote to ask us if we could come up with a better idea. This is a daunting challenge. We’ve heard that the Bank has spent millions over more tha...